The preclinical MRI scanners are capable of performing the latest state of the art imaging methods including:
- Dynamic Contrast Enhanced (DCE) MRI for measuring vascular permeability
- Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast (DSC) MRI for measuring blood volume, blood flow, and blood vessel caliber.
- Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) methods for perfusion imaging (both pseudo-continuos and continuous ASL methods)
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) for measuring water Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC)
- Diffusion Spectroscopic Imaging (DSI) for fiber tracking
- Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) MRI for measuring tissue pH and protein/metabolite concentrations
- Bruker IntraGate method for retrospectively gated cardiac CINE imaging
- Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) for quantitative T1, T2 and CEST mapping
- Dixon based methods for quantitative Fat-Water imaging
- Multi-echo spin-echo and gradient-echo methods for quantitative T2 and T2* mapping, respectively
- Inversion Recovery (IR), Saturation Recovery, and Look-Locker methods for quantifying T1 relaxation times
